[dba-Tech] The big change

New book on B4A coming out in a month's time:

http://basic4android.info/



On 9 Sep 2013 at 16:10, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> I fired up Basic4Android today.  Not a slam dunk but looks like a good way
> to develop an android app.  Bus man's holiday, I guess.  I don't need it for
> my career but it's time to play with phones and tablets.  My Access career
> is about done.
> 
> I did get a button installed on the emulator phone and clicked it and it
> said "Hello World!" :)
> 
> R
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 3:55 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The big change
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I agree with most of what you said and some of what your citations said.
> Clearly the marketplace has shifted, and we dinosaurs who put on our
> blinkers and see the rapidly-dimishing market for desktop apps (irrespective
> of programming language)... I for one Refuse to die in the asphalt
> tar-sands. Thank God for Alpha Anywhere to lead me out of these tar-sands.
> Were it not for that company, I would fold my tent and steal away like Arabs
> in the night (that's not a slur but a vaguely recollected poem or story from
> Rudyard Kipling, or possibly someone else; memory fails, in direct
> proportion to age).
> 
> A.
> 
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